Die republikanischen Otiumvillen von Tivoli

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The territory of the rural Latin town of Tibur (Tivoli) constituted one of the most important sites of Roman villa culture in the Republican period. In the summertime, Roman senators were attracted by the cool atmosphere of the Tiburtine slopes …

The Architecture of Decani and the Role of Archbishop Danilo II

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This book re-evaluates the position of the fourteenth-century church of Deçani Monastery within the particular historical context. The author discloses the organizational pattern in the structural constitution of the building and examines how an Orthodox cleric and a Franciscan friar …

Ubi diutius nobis habitandum est

Die Innendekoration der kaiserzeitlichen Gräber Roms

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„Dwellings of the dead” is nearly a synonym for burial chambers of the imperial period that does not arise from poetical imagination alone, but seems to be corroborated by archeological findings. In the present study it is for the first …

The Church of St. Panteleimon at Nerezi

Architecture, Programme, Patronage

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The church of St. Panteleimon at Nerezi is one of the major surviving monuments of twelth-century Byzantium. Commonly referred to simply as Nerezi, the church is distinguished as a foundation built by a member of the imperial family, decorated by …

San Salvatore in Spoleto

Studien zur spätantiken und frühmittelalterlichen Architektur Italiens

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Works of art without any real parallels, precursors or successors have always particularly confused researchers of the history of art. In the case of S. Salvatore in Spoleto the impossibility of anchoring the architecture within the known typologies and series …

Die ayyubidischen Toranlagen der Zitadelle von Damaskus

Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis des mittelalterlichen Festungsbauwesens in Syrien

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Die Zitadelle von Damaskus ist eine der wichtigsten islamischen Festungsbauten des Vorderen Orients. Ihre Erforschung stellt einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Kenntnis mittelalterlich-islamischer Wehrbauten und Architektur in Verbindung mit der politischen, der Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte dar.
Seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde …

The Studiolo of Urbino – An Iconographic Investigation

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The “studiolo” of Federico da Montefeltro in Urbino, the highlight of the Ducal Palace, is the most complete surviving example of an early Renaissance study. Its decorations (dated 1476) consist of a coffered ceiling, of inlaid panels depicting with impressice …

Triumphkreuz im Dom zu Lübeck

Ein Meisterwerk Bernt Notkes

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Zum Lobe Gottes hat Bischof Albert II. Krummedick im Jahre 1477 das bei Bernt Notke in Auftrag gegebene Triumphkreuz im Dom zu Lübeck errichten lassen. 500 Jahre später, 35 Jahre nach dem großen Brand des Domes wird dies den Raum …